Experience

Higher Education Strategy Associates

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Research Associate

  • Apr 2023 - Present



Freelance

• Toronto, Ontario

• Researcher & Historian

  • Jan 2020 - Present



The New School

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer

  • Dec 2018 - Dec 2019

  Food Studies BA/BS Food Studies BA/BS



UCLA

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Jul 2016 - Jun 2018

  Led a qualitative research team and provided undergraduate instruction at the Institute for Society and Genetics and the Center for the Study of Women - co-organized Edible Feminisms, a grant-funded two-day conference on the social determinants of metabolic health - co-edited an award-winning special issue of Food, Culture, and Society publishing reflections from Edible Feminisms Led a qualitative research team and provided undergraduate instruction at the Institute for Society and Genetics and the Center for the Study of Women - co-organized Edible Feminisms, a grant-funded two-day conference on the social determinants of metabolic health - co-edited an award-winning special issue of Food, Culture, and Society publishing reflections from Edible Feminisms



University of Toronto

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Fellow

  • Sep 2008 - Jun 2016

  Recipient of successive, competitive research grants in excess of $100,000. Past holder of doctoral research fellowships with the University of Toronto’s Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) (2012-2013) and Comparative Program on Health and Society (CPHS), Munk School of Global Affairs (2010-2011).

• Course Instructor, HIS202 Gender, Race, and Science

  • Jan 2015 - Apr 2016

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2009 - Jun 2013

  Held research assistantships examining the history of early nutrition, the calorimeter, and the calorie (Dr. Jessica Mudry, then Concordia University, now Ryerson University); of endocrine disruptors and reproductive toxins in the industrial Great Lakes region (Dr. Michelle Murphy, University of Toronto); and of gendered food networks in the GTA and global climate change (CURA W3 Food Study Project, Dr. Laurel MacDowell, University of Toronto).

• Teaching Assistant

  • Sep 2008 - May 2012

  Courses taught: HIS202 Gender, Race, and Science; HIS271 American History Since 1607; HIS370 The American Revolution (Mississauga); and HIS393 Slavery and the American South (Mississauga).Facilitated tutorial discussions; graded term papers, final examinations, student journals, and student participation; and collaborated with fellow teaching staff on student enrolment, relations, and assessment.



University of New Brunswick

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• On-Campus Recruitment Officer

  • Jul 2007 - Aug 2008

  Hosted prospective students & families visiting campus; collaborated with U-First: Integrated Recruitment & Retention team on design of innovative student recruitment and retention initiatives. Hosted prospective students & families visiting campus; collaborated with U-First: Integrated Recruitment & Retention team on design of innovative student recruitment and retention initiatives.